CVE-2003-0579 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in IBM U2 UniVerse versions 10.0.0.9 and earlier. The uvadmsh program insecurely trusts the user-supplied -uv.install command line option, allowing a local attacker to execute an arbitrary program with elevated privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, but potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 10.0.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:u2_universe:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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